Unit 1 Vocabulary

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Bandwidth - The range of transmission frequencies that a network
can use. The greater the bandwidth, the greater the amount of
information that can travel on the network at one time. On the less
technical side bandwidth is used to measure the amount of time it
takes for a web page to fully load.

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Browser - Software used to view information on the worldwide web.

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DNS server - Domain Name System. A database system that

translates an IP address into a domain name. For example, a numeric
IP address like 207.219.116.4 is converted into netlingo.com. DNS
allows users to specify remote computers by host names rather than
numerical IP addresses. A name given to a host computer on the
internet. The DNS, in effect, translates words into numbers that can be
understood by the Internet's computers.

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Domain name - The "address" or URL of a particular Web site. This is

also how you describe the name that is at the right of the @ sign in an
Internet address.

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Host - Any computer that can function as the beginning and end
point of data transfers.

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HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol The transmission standard used to

send an HTML document across the World Wide Web.

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HTML - Hypertext Markup Language.

IP Address - Internet Protocol Address. A uniquely assigned numeric
address for each computer connected to the Internet.

10. Intranet - A network within an organization that uses internet

technologies to connect its employees and customers to the
organization.
11. ISP - Internet Service Provider. A service company that provides a
user with an account on a host-computer having access to the Internet.
12. Packets - How information travels over a network.
13. Protocol - Protocols were created to ensure reliable connections
between many different computer types. The common set of standards

and rules ensure that all computers connected to the network have a
common ground from which to work
14. Search Engine - Search engines attempt to help a user isolate
desired information or resources by searching for keywords.
15. Secured Sites - Refers to any web site that uses encrypted
transmissions and takes other appropriate measures to ensure the
protection of sensitive information such as credit card information.
16. Server - A host computer on a network.
17. Site - A home and/or location on the World Wide Web. A place made
up of Web pages.
18. TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. A widely
used network communication protocol on microcomputer, minicomputer, and main-frame networks. TCP is needed on the internet for
reliable communications for transmitting datagrams across internet
networks. TCP is responsible for breaking up datagrams into
manageable sizes and reassembling datagrams at the destination,
then re-sending datagrams if a transmission error has occurred.
19. URL - (Uniform Resource Locator) The standard used to identify files
on the internet and World Wide Web using the type of server, the host
name the computer the file is on, and the complete path to the file.
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World Wide Web - An Internet service that links multimedia

documents together using hypertext.